Divided Societies and Memory
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GW University, through the Office of International Programs, hosts scholars from GW and from The Queen’s University in Belfast in a colloquium to discuss history, division, and memory from global perspectives, including the U.S., Ireland, Britain, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Vietnam, the Balkans, India, Pakistan, and others. |
Thursday, October 24, 2019
All presentations on October 24 will take place in the National Churchill Library and Center, Room 101, Gelman Library, 2130 H St. NW.
8:45am Coffee – Welcome from Teresa Murphy, Professor of American Studies and Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs
9:15-9:45am Olwen Purdue: "Sharing our divided pasts: the power of public history in east Belfast and south Jordan"
9:45-10:15am Darragh Gannon: "The Cuban missive crisis of 1920: Havana, Washington, Dublin"
10:15am Short Break
10:30am-11:00am Arie Dubnov: "Revisiting the Harp and the Star of David nexus: The image of the Sinn Féin in mandatory Palestine"
11:00-11:30am Stephen Lubkemann: "Meanings of Memory and the Slave Wrecks Project"
11:30-12:00pm Kate McMahon: "Bane of the Civilized World’: New England’s Slave Society"
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:30pm Jennifer Wells: "The Refugee Paradox: The Familial and Societal Rise of Syrian Women in Jordan and Lebanon"
1:30-2:00pm Colin Green: "Curriculum, Currere, and Counter-Conduct: Questions and Possibilities of Schooling in N. Ireland"
2:00-2:30pm Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou: "‘Devious Silence’: refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey"
2:30-3:00pm Sarah Wagner: "Science as Ritual: Accounting for the Missing in Action from the Vietnam War"
Friday, October 25, 2019
Presentations on October 25 will be split between two locations:
9:00am-11:00am - National Churchill Library and Center, Room 101, Gelman Library, 2130 H St. NW.
11:15am-2:00pm - The George Washington University Museum & Textile Museum, Myers Room, 701 21st St. NW.
9:00am Coffee
9:30-10:00am Dominic Bryan: "Memory, Identity and the Decade of Centenaries in Ireland: The role of rituals and symbols in the transmission of historical narrative"
10:00-10:30am Michelle Kelso: "Exploring Holocaust Memory through Digital Mediums"
10:30-11:00am Sean O’Connell: "The oral historian as 'insider' and 'outsider': approaches to researching mother and baby homes and Madgalene laundries in Northern Ireland"
11:00am Depart for GW Museum/Textile Museum (walk)
11:15-12:00pm Washingtoniana Collection presentation
12:00pm Lunch
1:00-1:30pm Kavita Daiya: "Representing Partition, Division, and Displacement in South Asia, 1947-1970"
1:30-2:00pm Tyler Anbinder: "The Great Famine and the Making of Irish New York"
Presenters
Tyler Anbinder
The George Washington University
Title: "The Great Famine and the Making of Irish New York"
Dominic Bryan
Queen's University Belfast
Title: "Memory, Identity and the Decade of Centenaries in Ireland: The role of rituals and symbols in the transmission of historical narrative"
Evi Chatzipanagiotidou
Queen's University Belfast
Title: "‘Devious Silence’: refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey"
Kavita Daiya
The George Washington University
Title: "Representing Partition, Division, and Displacement in South Asia, 1947-1970"
Arie Dubnov
The George Washington University
Title: "Revisiting the Harp and the Star of David nexus: The image of the Sinn Féin in mandatory Palestine"
Darragh Gannon
Queen's University Belfast
Title: "The Cuban missive crisis of 1920: Havana, Washington, Dublin"
Colin Green
The George Washington University
Title: "Curriculum, Currere, and Counter-Conduct: Questions and Possibilities of Schooling in N. Ireland"
Michelle Kelso
The George Washington University
Title: "Exploring Holocaust Memory through Digital Mediums"
Stephen Lubkemann
The George Washington University
Title: "Meanings of Memory and the Slave Wrecks Project"
Kate McMahon
Smithsonian Institution
Title: "Bane of the Civilized World’: New England’s Slave Society"
Sean O'Connell
Queen's University Belfast
Title: "The oral historian as 'insider' and 'outsider': approaches to researching mother and baby homes and Madgalene laundries in Northern Ireland"
Olwen Purdue
Queen's University Belfast
Title: "Sharing our divided pasts: the power of public history in east Belfast and south Jordan"
Jennifer Wells
The George Washington University
Title: "The Refugee Paradox: The Familial and Societal Rise of Syrian Women in Jordan and Lebanon"
Sarah Wagner
The George Washington University
Title: "Science as Ritual: Accounting for the Missing in Action from the Vietnam War"
The Office of International Programs thanks Denver Brunsman, Associate Professor of History, and GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences for contributions to the colloquium.